Frontiers in Practice: Reducing Poverty Through Better Diagnostics

When: March 22-23, 2006
Where: Room JB1-080

Sponsor: Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR)

Poverty diagnostics provide essential underpinnings for the Bank’s country assistance strategies and interventions as well as for our clients national development strategies. To be effective, our analytical work needs to use the best available data and techniques to understand poverty and its determinants, as well as the distributional impact of growth. It also needs to provide policy-relevant guidance on how to harness growth and design interventions for faster poverty reduction. This conference aims to improve the impact of the Bank's poverty analytics, by improving their quality and strengthening their linkages to growth strategies and public expenditures. Highlighting the fundamentals and exploring new frontiers in practice, the workshop is aimed at anyone who designs, undertakes and uses poverty diagnostics.

Agenda:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVERTY/Resources/335642-1130251872237/poverty_agendafeb23.pdf

Presentations:

Omar Arias

• Distributional Impact of VAT Reform in the Dominican Republic (200kb PPT)

Shubham Chaudhuri

• Poverty, Risk, and Vulnerability (694kb PDF)

Stefan Dercon

• Risk, Growth, and Poverty (237kb PPT)
• Rural Poverty: Old Challenges in New Contexts (332kb PPT)

Shantayanan Devarajan

• Analyzing the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty: Seven Stories (221kb PPT)

Francisco Ferreira

• Distributions in Motion: Growth and the Dynamics of Poverty and Inequality (467kb PPT)

Louise Fox

• Labor Markets, Growth and Poverty Diagnostics in Africa (43kb PPT)

Ann Harrison

• Labor Markets, Globalization and Poverty (83kb PPT)

Kai Kaiser

• Fiscal Leakages & Poverty Impacts: The Case of Indonesia’s Fuel Subsidy (366kb PPT)

Mark Montgomery

• Analyzing Urban Poverty in the Developing World (1.4mb PDF)

Ambar Narayan

• Understanding the Growth, Poverty and Inequality Nexus: Insights from the Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment (668kb PPT)

Martin Ravallion

• Measuring and Modeling Poverty: An Update (1.1mb PPT)
• Lagging Poor Areas: A Case Study of the South-West China Poverty Reduction Project (1.8mb PPT)

Tony Venables

• Regional Disparities and Policy Responses (97kb PPT)

Videos:

• Session 1: Are the Bank’s Poverty Diagnostics Good Enough?
• Session 2: Measuring Poverty
• Session 3: Poverty Across Space
• Session 4: Risk and Poverty

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